This paper provides an overview of the emergence of resource discovery systems and
services, along with their advantages, best practices, and current landscapes. It outlines …

The paper investigates open access (OA) self archiving policies of different Open Access
Repositories (OARs) of COAPI (Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions) founder …

Purpose This paper aims to provide an overview of the emergence of resource discovery
systems and services along with their advantages and best practices including current …

The data providers based on OAI-PMH protocol disseminates their metadata by providing a
syntactic interoperability between them. However, these data providers do not provide the …

The paper describes the growth and development of open access repositories (OARs) in
India. The paper proposes a Unicode-compliant information retrieval and representation …

Provides an overview of Subject Repositories (SRs) throughout the World in response to the
open access movement (OAM). It mainly highlights the current trends of repository …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usability effectiveness of a webware
for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in Nigerian repositories. The webware …

Many general and discipline specific universities, research institutions and other institutions
of higher learning in India are actively developing institutional repositories (IRs) since last …

This paper demonstrates the development of a metadata harvesting framework which is
based on a number of open standards and open source software. The paper demonstrates …

1. Agricultural Knowledge Agricultural Knowledge needs to be transferred from the global
knowledge base and from local research to farmers, enabling them to clarify their own goals …